Improvement in frames for making straw envelopes for bottles



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

YVILLIAM F. TILLINGHAST, OF BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRAMES FOR MAKING STRAW ENVELOPES FOR BOTTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1336,39 1, dated March4, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. TILLING- HAsT, of Burlington, New Jersey,have invented certain Improvements in Straw Covers or Envelopes forBottles, of which the following is aspecification:

This invention is intended to facilitate the manufacturing of strawcovers or envelopes for bottles to prevent breakage when packed fortransportation.

Figure 1 represents an open frame of light metal, A A, having three ormore bars, a a, running across it from one side to the other in eachhalf of the frame. Two of the bars on the left-hand end contain holes I)b for receiving movable pins. At 0 c the same bars have two stationarypins. By inserting movable pins in two of the holes first mentioned thewidth of the intended envelope is regulated, as I can thus at pleasureincrease or lessen the distance between the stationary pins 0 c andthose that are movable. Having covered the frame with straw between thepins 0 c, and the movable ones set up where they may be needed, thestraw being placed lengthwise of the frame, I place on the straw a flatmetal bar, D, which slips under the two staples e 0 set in the frame,and open at their ends to receive the bar. The bar holds the strawfirmly down on the frame. 'The right-hand half of the frame is nowturned over on the other half by means of the double hinge E, which isin the center of the frame; but the crossbars a a do not antagonize. Bythis operation the straw covering one half of the frame is turned overon that contained on the other half, and is also neatly broken into auniform edge over the bar D. The two halves of the frame are then heldtogether by means of the turn-screws or turn-buckles F F on the cornersof the left-hand end of the frame. The straw thus held in position isthen sewed between the cross-bars either by machine or an 3' otherconvenient process. The frame is then opened, the bar D withdrawn, thestraw mat taken from the frame, and the two edges tied together, thusforming a cylindrical envelope, which is afterward tied at the top, thetop trimmed, and it is then ready for use.

Fig. 2 is a section of the frame when spread open and ready to receivethe straw. Fig. 3 is a sect-ion when shut up and fastened by theturn-buckles.

I claim as my invention The hinged frames A A with bars a a, holes b b,and pins 0 c, in combination with the bar D and buckles F, as and forthe purpose spec ified.

WM. F. TILLINGHAST.

Witnesses:

EDMUND MoRRrs, J. L. POWELL.

